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George Savile Quote of the Day

Welcome to these George Savile Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Related topics: Positive Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology Patience Perseverance Persistence

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau

I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee

Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil

A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb

Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie